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Accessing the ports is easy. I did it with serial ports (build in and usb) under Linux and Windows. See the following links about how to du it. http://www.rxtx.org/ RXTX : serial and parallel I/O libraries supporting Sun's CommAPI http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Main Page - Rxtx http://wass.homelinux.net/howtos/Comm_How-To.shtml Java Comm Serial API How-To for Linux Hjave a nice Weekend Peter -- Dipl.-Ing. Peter Kutschera http://Peter.Kutschera.at/ -----Original Message----- From: Robert Meier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [QUESTION] Howto access parallel port java writers, I am a java newbie. How can one access the parallel port of a java laptop? How can one access /dev/parport0? How is hardware represented in java? By standard classes? Which ones? By gateway to an executable(?) underlying the JVM? What is the protocol/class/...? Can you (dis)recommend books/urls/... for learning hardware access with java? My goal is to add a graphical user interface to some existing command-line c++ diagnostic software, or preferrably port the diagnostic software to java. TIA, -- Dr. Robert J. Meier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]